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Magnification is not the same as detail - Online practice 1
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Model light microscope: eyepiece x10, objective x4. Multiply these for total magnification. An observer records only a cell outline and a dark nucleus; no chloroplast is resolved. A later digital enlargement makes the same image twice as wide. Enlargement can make an image bigger without revealing new detail.
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- Calculate total magnification for the x10 eyepiece and x4 objective.
- Does doubling the width of this x40 image prove that twice as many structures are resolved?
- Should a record from these x10/x4 lenses label an unseen chloroplast as observed?
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